Thursday, 30 April 2015

Clipfile - April 30, 2015

‘‘The administrative class is the private sector accomplice of the 4th branch of government...the regulatory state...and, increasingly, the regulatory state bureaucrats bestow government power to punish upon these private sector administrators. Truly a scary alliance.’’

Saturday, 25 April 2015

Clipfile - April 25, 2015

‘‘Churchill once said, ‘You can always depend on the American people to do the right thing, after they’ve tried everything else.’ That’s the thing the doomsayers can’t seem to wrap their minds around– our current trajectory is merely our current trajectory.’’

Saturday, 04 April 2015

Clipfile - April 4, 2015

‘‘...There are a lot of people for whom the primary appeal of ‘social justice’ is an opportunity to shame and claim scalps. They are not good people who are misguided or overzealous. They are bad, awful people who are parasites on social movements — parasites that, if not controlled, will destroy their host.’’ - Glenn Reynolds

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Clipfile - March 26, 2015

‘‘For decades now, our gatekeepers have been involved in an attempt to forge a people without past (or future) by metaphorically destroying or making inaccessible all the stories that don’t support the narrative they want us to believe. News, History, Stories, even religion, they’ve tried to deprive us of all of them...’’

Sunday, 22 March 2015

Clipfile - March 22, 2015

‘‘The primary purpose of race-talk in America today is to allow elite whites to silence and shame non-elite whites. Thus, it’s not surprising that the people pushing it are . . . a bunch of elite whites.’’

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

‘‘...The left’s entire mode of interacting with the world can be seen as a series of attempts to find something OTHER THAN competence that can be turned into success.

Union Seniority.

Tenure.

The Welfare State.

They all are a rebellion [against] the idea that people should gain rewards to the extent that they actually contribute productively to a task.

They like Ivy League credentials better than they like demonstrated competence for the same reason medieval nobles liked blood lines and disdained trade. Actually DOING things is disreputable, ‘‘rootless,’’ and unkind, and the people who DO things are not to be trusted.’’

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Well, as the old canard goes, "Those who do, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, administrate", which is another word for run things. Just like the kings of old, and just like our elected officials today.

Monday, 09 February 2015

Clipfile - February 9, 2015

‘‘Science, like all things human, suffers from its own successes. [Once] ...its celebrity became a brand, ...that brand was splashed all over lots of con games and outright fabrications in order to sell the masses on one collectivist folly after another.’’ - David Calderwood